Revival Beer

This is remited version of revival beer from Sapporo beer. This beer duplicate the taste of Japanese old beer. "gentei" means "limited". Japanese generally like anything which is limited.

Small beer

Small! This beer is small. I sometimes see this small beer in the store, but this is the first time that I bought this. I don't know what is the use of this 135ml small beer. This doesn't last 1 second.

Today's kanji is big and small.

Japanese Seasonal Beer - Fuyu Monogatari

This beer is winter limited from Sapporo Beer. The name is "fuyumonogatari". "Fuyu" means winter and "monogatari" means winter.





The taste is not that special, but I always try one when I found seasonal one in the store.










Today's kanji is four seasons. If you want to have your own kanji name use NinjaNameDatabase!

Japanese Seasonal Beer - Aki aji

In Japan, beer company launches seasonal limited beer aside from standard line up. Those are only sold 1-2month in each season. I've been to a lot of contries, but I haven't seen seasonal one exept in Japan. Does any other country have? If so, please introduce me!

Normally, Seasonal beer is not sold in the bar. So you have to buy it in convenience stores.Why don't you try when you come to Japan?



The beer on the picture is Autumn Limited Beer "Akiaji" which means Autumn taste. If you can tell seasonal limited beer by the picrue on the cans, but if you know kanji of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter you'll never miss.

Japanese beer

This is about Japanese beer. In Japanese, beer is called "bakushu", if we write in kanji. This means malt liquor. But we normally says "biiru" which is beer in Japanese pronunciation. In the bar or restaurants, it's written in katakana like below.

In Japanese law, beer must use more than 66.7% malt as its material. So if malt is less than 66.7%, we can not call it beer, but less alcohol tax instead. Beer with less than 66.7% malt is called "happoushu" which means sparkling liquor. Try, when you come to Japan!

Draft beer is called "nama biiru" in Japanese. "nama biiru" means "rare beer". If you want draft beer in bar or restaurants in Japan, say only "Nama!". Nama means rare , but you'll get cold draft beer.